St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-15
ALL FOR IRELAND.
4 Mass Meeting Of Representative
Men Protests Against the
Coercion Bill.
More than 1900 Men Again Con-
demn England's Long
Misrule,
And Applaud the Course Of the English
Statesman Who Champions Ire
lands Cause.
Letters of Earnest Sympathy From Sena-
tor Davis, Congressman Nelson
and Others.
Speeches by congressman Rice, Will
son and MacDonald--Gov Nc
gill PresideS.
Resolutions That Speak Out Plainly
ne Sentiment of the Great
Gathering.

hall last evening was complete success
both in regard TO numbers and the amount
of enthusiasm. The crowd began to as
semble about 7:30 o'clock and by o'clock
there were fully 200 people in the hall
Everybody was in the best of humor, and
as Bishop Thomas Grace walked up the
aisle the band played Hail to the Chief. )"
Nearly everybody applauded. At s o'clock
Gov. NIcGiIl. ID. ". Lawler. Capt. O'Con-
nor. Hon. Thomas p. Wilson, Hon. John
l.. Macdonald and Attorney General Clapp
entered the hall and took seats upon the
platform. Their entrance was the signal
of prolonged applause. Among the audi
ence could be seen people of various creedS
and nationaliues and from ali walks in life,
all drawn together by desire to express
sympathy with Ireland in her oppression.
Among those seated on the platform i'll the
capacity of vice presidents were:
Hon. Edmund Rice, Hon. P. II. Kelly,
Thomas Grace, Mayor r. A. Smith, Hon.
Lewis Baker eX-GoV. Marshall, Gen. j. B.
Sanboru, John Dowlan, Rev. Fathers Conway,
Clarke, Gallagher and Stanley; eX-Gov Ram
Sey, Can't. OConnor, Hon. c. ID. O'Bren,
NJ att Breen, Auditor Kahn. Judge Kelly, Hon.
~. P. Murray, J. 6. Donnely, Hon. w. r.
Merriam Judge J. J. McCatferty, DIR. Day,
Secretary OF State Mattson, Mark Costello,
Timothy Reardon, Chris Gallagher, of Min
neapolis. and others.
After a medley of patriotic selections by
the band. Hon. P. II. Kelly stepped for
ward and said, it was his pleasure to call
this meeting to order. He had the further
pleasure of calling to preside over the meet
ing Gov. \. r. McGill.
GOV. M'GILL PRESIDED.
The governor. upon taking the chair, said
he understood the meeting was called to
protest against the proposed coercion laws
of the British parliament. He was thor
oughly in sympathy with the cause. In
fact he was something of an Irishman HIM
self, it being only two generations since his
ancestors were born IN Ireland.
By some the Irish are often charged with
knowing too much, but they can't help that
The Irish people have learned wisdom under
that great man, Parnell. He has marshaled
the forces of his own people in their cause.
He il bound to secure a victory, and he is to-
day the most potent force in Ireland. Besides,
it has been willed by that great statesman,
HoE. William E. Gladstone: it has been
willed by the free born American people aud,
l believe, by the Eternal God himself. Hasten
the day when the desires of the Irish people
shall be attained.
Gov. McGill then announced that the next
thing in ORDER was the election of secre-
tary. D. W. Lawler was chosen and he
immediately proceeded to read the list of
Hon. c. K. Davis, Bishop NJ. n. Gilbert,
Hon. Knute Nelson and Gen. H. H. Sibley.
and a telegram from United States Attor-
neY George \. Baxter, all of which eX-
pressed sympathy with the cause. and re-
gretS that they were unable to be present.
Following are some Of the letters:
FROM SENATOR DAVIS.
Ny DEAR SIR: 1t is impossible for me to
accept the invitation which you conveyed to
me III such appropriate terms, to address the
meeting to be held next Thursday for the
purpose OF giving authoritative expression TO
the sentiments entertained in this community
by men of every faith, nationality and polit-
ical opinion upon the monStrouS policy OF CO.
ercion proposed toward the Irish people.
l have spoken so frequently in this city
during the last fifteen years upon the wrongs
sutf fred by ireland that my thorough sympa-
thy with that people is well known. l have
watched with the eager interest which hope
inspires the brave yet consummatey patient
and skillful efforts of Davitt and Parnell and
the all-cOnprehending craftsmanship of Mr..
Gladstone in behalf of that great
race, whose political, social aud pro-
prietary wrongs arouse sympathy throughout
the English-speaking world. All history
teaches that extreme measures OF coercion
are the last efforts of tyranny when it is
about to lose its power to oppress.
During the last twenty years the progress
toward Irish emancipation has been resist
less. though SLOW.
firmly believe that out of the clouds and
darkness which rest upon the present Situa-
ton, the genius of Irish emancipation will
soon rise in glorious TRANSPORTATION with
power to preside forever over q redeemed
people. The day is near when the wonted
Glories of that land of sorrow and genius viii
be revived by the restoration of political in
dependence 10 that invincible, though dena-
tiolaiZed race, whose blood has cemented the
stability of stranger lands all over the world
poured out as it has been for Germany,
France. Spain. England and America, by d
people which at home or in exile has proved
its right and capacity to govern itself by its
Identification with the cause of threatened
natiOnalities whenever they have been put
into peril and by its abhorrence of the anarch.
lists who now attack the foundations of So
ciety- Very respectfully. G. X. DAVIS.
St. Paul, April II.
FROM CONGRESSMAN NELSON
D. W. Lawler, Chairman Committee on In
vtation of the st. Paul Laud League-Dear
Sir: Your kind invitation of the 9th is at
hand. / regret very much that | can not well
meet with you tomorrow evening as would
like, but though unavoidably absent heartily
sylnpathiZe with the objects OF the meeting.
During the times of Strongbow, Elizabeth.
Oliver Cromwell and William of Orange
down to the close of the seventeenth century,
English rule in Ireland was that of contisca-
ton and extermination. The Irish were as
1nercilessly hunted down and as ruthlessly
despoiled of their lands as were the Indians
In our Western hemisphere. But, while we
aud our ancestors on this continent have,
under liberal land laws, made judicious dis
tribution among our own people OF the lands
which we have filched from the Indians, the
English of this period TO which we have ad-
verted, granted in large blocks. the lands oil
which they had despoiled the Irsh to non
resident courtiers and royal mlstreSseS; and
it is the resultant iuiQuitT of these grants,
rather than the cruel and tarbarous confisca-
tions that now is plague TO the English and
fostering sore to the Irish. The children
of the despoiled and +he despoier meet to-
day, face to face. and the true question be.
tween them still is, how best to right the
wrongs of centuries, how to atone for all the
deadening and dreary past. Two remedies
and these two Only-Seem at all adequate for
the subject at the occasion: First. total de-
strucIion of alien landloriism, coupled with 6
judic.ouS distribution of the land in n;oder
ate parcels in fee, at reasonable rates, among
the Irish people.
Second-Home rule as to all local affairs
Of these two, the more difficult is the land
problem, for it viii not do to atone for the
contiscations of the past with confscations OF
to-day. Fortunately the British parliament
IS NOT EAMPERED
by any written constitution as our Legislative
body would be in such case. AS we, upoT
just compensation, take land for railroad
purposes, so could the British parliament
upon proper compensation, take the estate:
of the Irish landlords and devote and dis
tribute the same to and among the Irish peo
ole ON just and adequate principles Ant
fhe compensation awarded to the landlord
should be paid-not by the Irish people-bn
by the imperial government. To my mint